Esquivel
Mexico
Born: 20 January 1918
Died: 03 January 2002
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Genres: Easy Listening
Styles: Exotica, Exotica/Lounge, Space Age Pop, Lounge
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In the mid-'90s, Juan Garcia Esquivel enjoyed one of the most unexpected resurgences of popularity -- and hipness -- in the annals of 20th-century pop. The composer and arranger skirted the lines between lounge music, eccentric experimentalism, and stereo sound pioneer in the late '50s and early '60s on a series of albums aimed at the easy listening market. Both cheesy and goofily unpredictable, these records were forgotten by all but thrift-store habitues for decades. With the space age pop/exotica revival of the mid-'90s, however, Esquivel wa...
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